I just don't see why the past has to matter.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothing for the light to burn away.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color.

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.

I wasn't born thin. I train. But I would never starve myself. I mean, what is happening with women these days? I just couldn't see myself looking that thin. I like a bit of waist and leg.

You can only look forward as far as you can look back.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.